Cyber Security Architect

Resolve Recruit Inc.; Canberra; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Resolve Recruit is seeking an experienced Cyber Security Architect to provide technical and strategic leadership across a Federal Government agency's cyber security platforms. Based in Canberra, you will design, uplift and harmonise security monitoring, identity, endpoint, cloud and secure internet access capabilities.

You will collaborate with Cloud Infrastructure, Network, End User Computing and enterprise architecture teams, translating complex environments into practical, implementable

Qualifications

• Experience designing and uplifting cyber security architectures in enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to translate architecture into implementable designs.
• Ability to challenge vendor-led proposals with practical, environment-specific options.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain enterprise security monitoring architecture (SIEM, Windows events, cloud telemetry).
• Lead architecture for Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Identity, and Purview.
• Lead security architecture reviews across infrastructure, identity, endpoint, network, cloud and SaaS.
• Create high/low designs, diagrams, patterns, and architecture decision records.
• Develop target architectures and roadmaps for security platforms uplift.
• Apply ISM, PSPF, Essential Eight and ASD guidance to designs.

Skills

Cyber security design

SIEM architecture

Defender for Endpoint

Defender for Identity

Rapid7

Windows Event Collection

ASD guidance

ISM PSPF

Tools

Rapid7

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Defender for Identity

Job description

• 12-month contract with a 12-month extension option
• Canberra-based Commonwealth Government engagement
• NV1 security clearance preferred

Resolve Recruit is seeking an experienced Cyber Security Architect to provide technical and strategic architecture leadership across a Federal Government agency's core cyber security platforms and services. This role focuses on the design, integration, uplift and ongoing technical coherence of security monitoring, identity, endpoint, cloud, emerging technology and secure internet access capabilities.

You will work primarily within Cyber Security, partnering with Cloud Infrastructure, Network Infrastructure, End User Computing, enterprise architecture and project teams. You'll need a deep understanding of complex enterprise environments, the ability to translate architecture into implemented, supportable outcomes, and the confidence to challenge generic or vendor-led proposals in favour of practical, environment-specific designs.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the architecture for enterprise security monitoring, including SIEM, Windows Event Collection and cloud telemetry
• Provide architecture leadership for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Purview and Defender for Identity
• Lead cyber security architecture reviews across infrastructure, identity, endpoint, network, cloud, SaaS and data initiatives
• Produce high-level and detailed designs, integration diagrams, security patterns and architecture decision records
• Develop target architectures and technical roadmaps for the rationalisation or uplift of security platforms
• Apply the ISM, PSPF, Essential Eight and ASD guidance to technical architecture and design decisions

Key Experience and Skills

• Designing, integrating and uplifting cyber security technologies across complex enterprise environments
• SIEM architecture, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Identity, including sensor design and telemetry coverage
• Rapid7, Windows Event Collection or equivalent technologies highly desirable
• Strong working knowledge of the ISM, PSPF, Essential Eight and relevant ASD guidance

If you’re an experienced Cyber Security Architect looking to work in a technically broad, high-impact Commonwealth Government environment, we’d love to hear from you.